Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the bomb explosions came screams of the dying. Hospitals were full; wounded had to be dragged into what was left of private houses. The city was crumbling, but still Warsaw fought on, both sexes and all ages behind the barricades. Mayor Straczynski went down into the streets, picked up a shovel and dug trenches. When German tanks blasted their way into the suburbs, the defense hurled bottles of gasoline against them, trying to set them afire...
...slower trucks bringing up the rear. Conjunction of the west-moving Russian horde with the east-flowing Germans was awaited tensely. Would they embrace each other? Or would they quarrel over their prey? The answer soon came: the Nazi Air Force cooperated heartily with the Soviet spearheads to bomb and flatten even the slightest resistance...
...moment Germany's coal ran short-"and I might say at that very exact moment"-the seizure of Polish mines* relieved the strain. The failure of Britain to attack meant "their desire to fight does not seem too great." Reassuring was the failure of Britain to bomb Berlin. Then there was the hope that Britain and France could be divided-"England will fight to the last Frenchmen-remember that, you Frenchmen...
Penetration v. Laceration. Battlefield wounds are of two main types: penetrating, lacerating. Penetrating wounds are caused by bomb fragments and bullets, lacerating wounds by high explosive bombs. "Secondary bodies" may also act as missiles. "Thus the contents of a victim's pockets," say Drs. Mitchiner and Cowell, "may be peppered by the force of the burst bomb, and such things as ... penknives, coins and pencils may be found distributed in the body, and occasionally outside objects such as pebbles, bits of masonry, and even the bones and soft tissues of a nearby victim may cause wounds." Grease, dirt...
...secretaries, a psychology of secretaries." For that and for the ruthless use of the secret police his talents sufficed, says Souvarine, for the wise reconstruction and administration of Russia they were pitiful in face of the task with which Lenin himself could scarcely cope. The implacability of a good bomb thrower (TIME, Sept. 4) showed itself inappropriate, to say the least, when Stalin collectivized agriculture at the attested cost of 5,000,000 peasant lives. Lenin continually and publicly admitted his mistakes; Stalin gradually would tolerate nothing but adulation. And behind...